This title highlights role of district and circuit courts in establishing and maintaining national supremacy. In this original study, Kurt Graham sheds light on both an understudied institution and an underappreciated period in our nation's judicial history with an examination of the federal judiciary - the district and circuit courts - during the early national period. Using Rhode Island as a case study, Graham argues that the federal judicial system exerted a significant nationalizing influence on the citizens and states of the new American nation. Graham illustrates how the federal...
This title highlights role of district and circuit courts in establishing and maintaining national supremacy. In this original study, Kurt Graham shed...